TEAM-WORK OF PATHOLOGIC ANATOMY DEPARTMENT AND FORENSIC MEDICINE DEPARTMENT FOR POST-GRADUATE TRAINING OF FORENSIC PATHOLOGISTS

Abstract

Depending on general goals and objectives of postmortem examination, post-graduate training of forensic experts is provided by departments of pathologic anatomy and forensic medicine conjointly. It consists of four stages that include postmortem diagnostics of the most important somatic diseases (stage I), work with macrobiological specimens (stage II), microscopical diagnostics (stage III), and making out of a diagnosis and thanatological conclusion, based on the attainments (stage IV). Four-stage training system shows up an adequacy of this approach to didactic process of forensic pathologists' advanced training.